non-believer
There was a time in my life where my being an anti-church made me question the existence of my God. For quite a time, the church has been perverting the teachings of God that the church made me question Christ’s divinity. I have been an atheist for I thought there things in supposed God’s existence which are illogical and has not touched my sense of empiricism.
But later did I learn that atheism occurs because people don’t want the idea that they have something they do not know. Religion and rationality are not parallel and therefore the existence of God can never be attributed to the inquisitive mind and what it knows, rather what the heart feels.
And so, atheism is not for me.
Philosophizing is not for philosophy majors only. If you think I am wrong, then the hell with you, this is what I believe in.
posted by ray john @ 10:41 AM
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"But later did I learn that atheism occurs because people don’t want the idea that they have something they do not know."
I've never met an atheist who had that motivation. It's arguable, though, that some people are religious theists because the answer "I don't know" (why something happened, why humans exist) is unappealing and "God did it" provides a comforting answer.
Don't generalize about atheists when you weren't even one to begin with. It's arrogant.
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thank you for the comment; i will respect your piece.
but really now, what's wrong with people admitting that they have something that they do not know, cannot understand or cannot explain?
oh i have been one believe me. i may have kept my silence but i was questioning the existence of God and i have developed a cynicism towards him and towards religion in general. why? because there are things in people's religiosity and Christ's divinity which i cannot explain.
yeah your argument is correct; humans attribute everything that they do not know to God's works. i too once shared with you that same argument.
but look at it in different way. inquisitive people are suckers for empowerment for everything that they know and can explain. however, inquisitive people, who seek the truth about God, could not explain fully his existence and works, therefore, atheism becomes their comfort zone for everything that they could not explain.
im sorry if i sounded so arrogant to you
There was this one philosopher who said that a little of philosophy causes one to be an atheist but a deep philosophy brings forth man’s deep faith on the existence of God. This reminds me of Nietzsche’s famous line “God is dead.” Well simply because we killed Him. We turned ourselves to be our own “God”. We thought that with the advancements in science we can know everything. This is a manifestation of man’s arrogance. We can never know everything and certainly we did not create ourselves.
But I am not here to promote religions in fact I am not a religious person though I consider myself as a spiritual one. I believe that there is One out there who started these all and to whom I owe my existence.
I agree with you. I consider philosophy as the most important course in school and well in life for basically philosophy is life. We should always examine (which means reflecting) our lives for as Socrates says “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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